Taking Nonna’s Wardrobe Out for a Spin
Review of Dolce&Gabbana Spring 2027 Fashion Show
By Angela Baidoo
Nonna had quite a wardrobe. There was lace, crochet, leopard, jewellery, and enough lingerie to make it clear that she had enjoyed herself. For Spring 2027, Dolce & Gabbana handed the lot to her granddaughter, who wore some of it with jeans. That was the engaging premise of “Stravaganza Siciliana.” It was also a useful test for the designers: after decades of drawing on Sicilian family memory, could they make the inheritance feel like it belonged to someone new?
A recorded narration described clothes passed between generations of women, while screens gave the runway the appearance of a palazzo. The story was generous. Grandmother dresses granddaughter; granddaughter mixes the precious with the everyday. Yet family history has supplied Dolce & Gabbana with inspiration for so long that its presence alone can no longer carry a collection. What mattered here was the moment a young woman took something carefully kept and wore it her own way.
THE COLLECTION
THE VIBE
A pale denim jacket dotted with flowers over a white lace skirt caught the idea neatly. Neither piece had to surrender its identity for the outfit to work. Jeans scattered with embellishment brought a similar ease to all the ornament, while a short dress covered in colourful crochet flowers made a case for wearing the handiwork instead of preserving it.
Elsewhere, leopard tailoring, sheer lace, and layers of necklaces played to the house’s appetite for excess. Some combinations looked as though they had come from different wardrobes in the same family, which was precisely their charm. Even the more precious dresses became interesting when they seemed vulnerable to an unexpected shoe, a borrowed jacket, or the wrong piece of jewellery worn with complete confidence.
There were moments when the collection felt too aware of its own signatures. A black lace bralette with jeans had the spontaneity the narration promised. More conventional lingerie looks, however, returned us to a Dolce & Gabbana woman we already know well. She has every right to be at this family gathering; she needn’t dominate the conversation.
THE WRAP UP
“Stravaganza Siciliana” was most persuasive when the designers allowed their archive to be handled. Lace gained something from denim’s indifference to ceremony. Crochet looked better out in the street than tucked away as a keepsake. In those looks, the clothes carried memories without asking the wearer to live in the past.
The show’s narration concluded, “Today, true extravagance is to be unrepeatable.” The collection came closest to that idea when a flower-studded denim jacket met a white lace skirt: the inherited piece was still cherished, but its new owner had somewhere to take it.
